Thursday, April 18, 2024

Fool ‘Em

Experimenting with ideas

That poke at your soul

Creating new arias

That make you feel full

Venturing into avenues

Seeking a better fate

Being just who you

You can’t contemplate

When the season rolls near

Others judge your work

With such ageism now

Expecting you to be hurt

Sending dusty labels forward

Hinting a stronger past

Sending a message

You will never last

Keep on creating work

That embodies you

Seeing a new tomorrow

In everything you do

Fleshing out new ideas

Building on what’s gone on

Not feeling entitlement

Just happy with what you have

by Bill Ferguson

Being

Compacted

Visual

Tightly organized

Not deeply analytical

Capturing that moment

Seeking joy

Within its grasp

Being is

All it asks

by Bill Ferguson

New Thoughts

Open moments

Reaching out

Pulling deftly

Past the fads

Seeing new centers

A new path

Reaching forward

Almost grasp

New thoughts

Suddenly growing

New thoughts

Filtering through

New thoughts

Expanding horizons

New thoughts

For me and you

Past influences

Past their minds

Growing deftly

I do find

Pushing moments

Growing free

Almost there

I can see

by Bill Ferguson

State Of War

Hard times

Dust and delusion

State of war

Peace and prosperity

Anti intellectual

Let’s party

Let’s dance

Let’s have fun

Timeless romance

Mindless and free

Pensive thoughts

Outside boundaries

Psychedelic moments

Minds did scream

A return to nature

Positive phoniness in degrees

Political season

Was it a dream

Growing tech

Growing minds

All reduced

To money in time

Inner peace

Harder to find

I’d love to change the world

But I wouldn’t want to change you

by Bill Ferguson

A Love Fest

Intense

Mingling

Of magic

When two or more

Minds meet

As equals

Sharing thoughts

Sharing music

Becoming one

For a moment

A love fest occurs

And growth

Begins

by Bill Ferguson

Just Being You

In the moment

Amidst isolation

A dream occurs

As a small thread

Tying reality

Together

To give meaning

And purpose

To one’s life

In the moment

Amongst constant

Relocation

An idea grows

Spreading wings

Seeking shelter

Percolating

Discovering

And through this

A longing

A need to belong

Points to other

Salient needs

Developing

With intensity

Just being

You

by Bill Ferguson

On Being Creative

No fantasies of grandeur

No wild hopes and dreams

Just seeing stepping stones

Accepting what I need

Doing it because I could

I needed something to do

I used my creative talent

To create something new

No it wasn’t easy

I enjoyed it all the same

Took each step slowly

Leaping forward when it came

Within a short while

Supporters settled in

Believed in my world

Urged me to formally begin

And then a break came

As I suppose it should

One day at a time

Showed that I was good

And when critics battered

Pounding at my door

With their bruised egos

Asking what its for

I kept on going

Smiling through my gain

My life was taking off

They remained the same

by Bill Ferguson

When They Fade Away

In the age of the internet

It is too easy

To look around

And see pictures

Or hear music

Of days of yore

And wish for something simpler

And for something more

Contemplative

That challenges our minds

As we look at the life

We have defined

Instead of a sense of wonder

We relish what was in the past

Holding up shining examples

Of how things do last

Instead of accepting something new

Something deep and full of meaning

Dollar signs got in the way

It became so demeaning

Few do things because they can

Everyone expects rich pay

Not satisfied with what they are doing

When they fade away

by Bill Ferguson

I Live Only One Life

(And It Is All About My Needs)

Out of key

Out of tune

Not coming in on one

More jazz than rock and roll

Forging my own way

Down a dusty road

Sitting a spell

To ease the load

Not asking for things that I need to do

Not living a life that has been defined by you

I live only one life

And it is all about my needs

Once there were men throwing boatloads of cash

I said save your money you are acting rash

I get along just fine without you keeping time

Don’t you try to read my mind

I live only one life

And it is all about my needs

Once someone said

What aren’t you more like me?

I laughed and laughed and said

That’s just what this world needs

Everyone can’t be the same

There is more than one epic game

I live only one life

And it is all about my needs

by Bill Ferguson

Waking Up

Sometimes we have to wake up

Our thoughts

Our thinking

Ideas are run up the pole

Removed

Taken down

Replaced

By newer thinking

Come on now

Everything changes

Everything moves on

Replaced by newer

More vulnerable

Strategic

Concepts

It's how we grow

It's how we see

The larger picture

It's how we build

Newer parts

Of our lives